Friedrich NietzscheWiki, Height, Age, Net Worth, Family 2018

Died

: 25 August 1900

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history

When did Friedrich Nietzsche die? / Died

25 August 1900

Friedrich Nietzsche facts

He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy

He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age of 24

Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and he completed much of his core writing in the following decade

In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties

He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother (until her death in 1897), and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and died in 1900

His writing displayed a fondness for aphorism and irony, while engaging with a wide range of subjects including morality, aesthetics, tragedy, epistemology, atheism, and consciousness

Some prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of reason and truth in favor of perspectivism; his notion of the Apollonian and Dionysian; his genealogical critique of religion and Christian ethics, and his related theory of master–slave morality; his aesthetic affirmation of existence in response to the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; and his characterization of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power

In his later work, he developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return, and became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome social, cultural, and moral contexts in pursuit of aesthetic health

After his death, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche became the curator and editor of her brother's manuscripts, reworking Nietzsche's unpublished writings to fit her own German nationalist ideology while often contradicting or obfuscating his stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism